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When I'm feeling cool and downloading a
*.tar*
file, I'llwget
to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.I have (successfully!) written an
.iso
to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.Something like
wget avc.com | tar xvf
?Almost, I think.
Didnt think this would ever work
TAr stands for Tape Archive. Tapes store data sequentially. Downloads are done sequentially.
It's really just like a far away tape drive.